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UNITED STATES `PATENT OFFICE..

DoMINIoUs BRIX, or ennnsno, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Patent N o. 267,143, datedNovember '7, 1882.

Application led September 9, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DoMINIoUs BRIX, ofGeneseo, in the county of Henry andState of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Stoves; and I do hereby declarethat the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference beinghadtotheaccompanyingdrawings,which form a part of this specification, andin Which- Figure l is a vertical sectional view of my improved stove.Fig. 2 is a horizontal section Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view takenat right angles to the view shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlargeddetail view of one of the legs of the stove. Fig. 5 is a perspectivedetail view of one of the leg-supports; and Fig. 6 is a similar view ofthe lever for elevating the leg, with its ball-caster, when it isdesired to placethe rest or shoe shown in Fig. 5 underneath it.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Myinvention has relation to stoves or ranges for cooking purposes whichare adapted also to be used for heating purposes; and it consists in theimproved construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter morefully shown and described, whereby a cooking-stove may be converted intoan ornamental parlor-stove for heating purposes in a moment of time andwith a minimum of labor.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents the body of thestove, which may be of any suitable size and of any approvedconstruction. I prefer, for this purpose, astove of the constructionillustratedin the drawings, in which the body of the stove, with itsoven, is mounted upon a hollow base, B, which con stitutes a fluesupported upon legs C, having ball-casters K. Underneath this base isthe ash-pit D, which communicates with the tirebox A2 through a passage,d d', into which the ashes fall through the grate-bars in thebottom ofthe lire-box. vThe latter is provided with suitably-arranged doors anddampers for feeding the fuel and regulating the draft.

The top of the stove, A', has any desired number of lire-holes, a,according to its size or number, and may be provided with a hingedshelf', I, having suitable meansfor its supportin an extended orhorizontal position. Ialso prefer to construct the horizontal bottom ue,B, with an extension, B', having a door or damper at its outer end,through which cold air may be let into the flue, and havingan opening inits top, closed by a removable cover, b. This extended part ofthe fluemay, however, be dispensed with, if desired, as it does not affect theoperation of the parts constituting my improvement. This consists in thehinged sides E and removable anged cover F, bywhich a hot-air drum isformed on top of the stove. There are four of these sides, hingedrespectively to the four sides of the body ot' the stove in such amanner that they may be detached at will. As it is important to makethis hot-air drum airtight, or nearly so, to prevent the escape ot' theproducts of combustion into the room in which the stove is placed, Iemploy cornerpieces e, at the lower ends of which are tenons fittinginto holes bored in the four corners of the top plate A. Thesecorner-pieces are rahbeted or recessed along their edges to receive theedges of the hinged plates E and form a perfect joint with them, as willbe seen by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings.

F is the top-plate, which has side langes,f, overlapping the top edgesofthe hinged plates E, so as to tit closely upon them and bind themtogether. I prefer to construct the hinged sides` or plates E withwindows or openings e', cov'- ered with thin panes or sheets ofisinglass or mica.

G and H are the smoke-fines, through which the smoke and hot air escapefrom the heating drum or dome E F into the chimney or into any othersuitable outlet, the covers or lids of the lire-openings c being ofcourse removed when the stove is used as a parlor or heating stove'. Bythe employment of two ilues, arranged as shown and intersecting eachother at right angles, I have found that all products of combustionwhich escape into the removable dome from the fire-box below are carriedoft' elfectually, even if there should be some slight leakage in thejoints of the removable dome or hot-air chamber E F.

I prefer to construct the legs C of my improved stove with ball-castersK, which rest in semi-spherical recesses in the bottom or un- IOO derside of the stove-legs, as shown more clear] y in Fig. 4 of thedrawings, and are held in place by an annular plate, c. To preventindentation of the parlor-Hoor by the balls K, I employ a shoe orsupport, L, (shown in Fig. 5,) having a recess, l, which is pushed inunder the ball, while the appropriate stove-leg is elevated a littleabove the loor by means of the lever or lifting device shown at M inFig. 6. This is (lone simply by inserting its beveled lips n 'n underplate c on opposite sides of the ball, which fits into the recess m, andthen depressing the projecting outer end ofthe lever, which elevates thestove-leg sufficiently to slide the recessed shoe L under it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- The combination, with a stove orrange of any suitable construction, of a detachable dome zo or hot-airchamber formed by the removablyhinged side plates, E, removable cornerse, and angedtop or cover F, said dome being provided Withsuitably-arranged flues, Gr H, substantially as and for the purposeherein shown 2 5 and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto axedmy signature in presence of two Witnesses.

DOMINIGUS BRIX.

Witnesses LoUIs BAGGER, JNO. A. MADIGAN.

